Zoology

is the science of animal life, and is the sister science to botany, the science of vegetable life, the two together forming biology. It first took definite shape with Aristotle, who studied both the morphological and the physiological sides—i.e. both the forms and the habits of animals, of which he seems to have known some <00 species. With the Renai ance the study was taken up again, especially by Edward Wotten in England, and from the time of Buffon it has been a real science. The great names in its development are Linne, Cuvier, Huxley, Haller, Hunter, etc.